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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Erica, Richie and the boys bought me yarn and hooks for Christmas. In the bag was a skein of burgandy and a skein of gold (along with some others) - she wanted me to make her a Redskins hat. I used the same pattern as "Erica's hat", just changed to gold on the last 3 rnds.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

I've started working on yet another granny square blanket. These grannies are the closed grannies. They will be worked 4 rounds with the variegated yarn scraps (I still have a ton) and 1 round of sc in soft white with the chain joining round.

Crocheting granny squares are a simple project to tote around with me. I crochet in the car before going into work and then crochet a little while I eat my snack at work. It keeps me sane.

I have finished my variegated granny blanket - it measures about 32" square. Each square was 5 rounds of variegated and then the final round was the joining round in soft white. I enjoyed using this particular joining method - it was very quick and easy. The only problem was that I had about 50 million ends to weave in and no real secure place to weave them. I much prefer having a sc border so all my ends will be secure. To crochet this blanket I used my vast supply of scrap yarn - the only yarn that was purchased was 1 skein of RHSS soft white for the borders.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

I crocheted a popcorn garland for my Christmas tree I have at work. Since the tree is only about 12" tall, instead of using dc popcorns, I used hdc popcorns and I chained 8 instead of 10. The decorations are various washers and nuts I found at work. I cleaned them and then colored them with Sharpie markers. The star I cut out of an index card.

I've been searching for a crochet pattern for a pair of fingerless gloves but I didn't really find any I liked. I was getting kind of frustrated - I need gloves - it's starting to get cold. And then a light came on on top of my head (think of the cartoons) - a couple of weeks ago, I bought a 2-pair pack of gloves from the Dollar Tree (1 black pair and 1-pink pair) - I took the black pair and cut off the fingers and then sewed on flower buttons to the cuffs. Came out real cute if I may say so myself.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Saturday, November 7, 2009

I originally intended this bag to be a purse, but it came out too big. It measures 12" x 8" x 6 1/2". I will use it as a project bag instead. I also need to get some handles at Joann's and sew them on.